Measuring attentional bias to food cues in young children using a visual search task: An eye-tracking study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Attentional bias to food cues may be a risk factor for childhood obesity, yet there are few paradigms to measure such biases in young children. Therefore, the present work introduces an eye-tracking visual search task to measure attentional bias in young children.

Methods

Fifty-one 3-6-year-olds played a game to find a target cartoon character among food (experimental condition) or toy (control condition) distractors. Children completed the experimental and toy conditions on two separate visits in randomized order. Behavioral (response latencies) and eye-tracking measures (time to first fixation, initial gaze duration duration, cumulative gaze duration ) of attention to food and toy cues were computed. Regressions were used to test for attentional bias to food vers

SUBMITTER: Brand J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7995328 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature